The impact of female schooling on fertility and contraceptive use : a study of fourteen sub-Saharan countries (English)

This paper examines the relationship between female schooling and two behaviors - cumulative fertility and contraceptive use - in fourteen sub-Saharan African countries where Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) have been conducted since the mid-1980s. Using multivariate regression analysis, the paper compares the effect of female schooling across countries, in urban and rural areas, and across different cohorts of women. For the subsample of ever-married...

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Ainsworth,Martha;

Beegle,Kathleen G.;

Nyamete,Andrew V.;
Document Date
1995/02/28
Document Type
Publication
Report Number
LSM110
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Kenya, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Togo, Mali, Botswana, Niger, Uganda, Tanzania, Senegal, Cameroon, Zambia, Nigeria, Burundi,
Region
Western and Central Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa,
Disclosure Date
2003/01/24
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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The impact of female schooling on fertility and contraceptive use : a study of fourteen sub-Saharan countries
Keywords
Demographic and Health Survey

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Ainsworth,Martha; Beegle,Kathleen G.; Nyamete,Andrew V..

The impact of female schooling on fertility and contraceptive use : a study of fourteen sub-Saharan countries (English). Living standards measurement study (LSMS) working paper|no. LSM 110 Washington DC ; World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/100131468099560120

The impact of female schooling on fertility and contraceptive use : a study of fourteen sub-Saharan countries (English)

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